Thomas Frank and Michael Moore may be the only two people who understood the 2016 election as it was happening.
This book is a brilliant dissection of the Democratic Party and how it lost it's way, abandoning the working class for an alliance with Wall Street and Silicon Valley that haunts our electoral prospects and harms what is supposed to be our core constituency.

This is a must read for any liberal seeking to understand why the upper midwest abandoned the Democrats for Donald Trump. Hint: It's not (just) racism & sexism.